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    Algebraic analysis of a model of two-dimensional gravity

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    An algebraic analysis of the Hamiltonian formulation of the model two-dimensional gravity is performed. The crucial fact is an exact coincidence of the Poisson brackets algebra of the secondary constraints of this Hamiltonian formulation with the SO(2,1)-algebra. The eigenvectors of the canonical Hamiltonian HcH_{c} are obtained and explicitly written in closed form.Comment: 21 pages, to appear in General Relativity and Gravitatio

    Peculiarities of the Canonical Analysis of the First Order Form of the Einstein-Hilbert Action in Two Dimensions in Terms of the Metric Tensor or the Metric Density

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    The peculiarities of doing a canonical analysis of the first order formulation of the Einstein-Hilbert action in terms of either the metric tensor gαβg^{\alpha \beta} or the metric density hαβ=ggαβh^{\alpha \beta}= \sqrt{-g}g^{\alpha \beta} along with the affine connection are discussed. It is shown that the difference between using gαβg^{\alpha \beta} as opposed to hαβh^{\alpha \beta} appears only in two spacetime dimensions. Despite there being a different number of constraints in these two approaches, both formulations result in there being a local Poisson brackets algebra of constraints with field independent structure constants, closed off shell generators of gauge transformations and off shell invariance of the action. The formulation in terms of the metric tensor is analyzed in detail and compared with earlier results obtained using the metric density. The gauge transformations, obtained from the full set of first class constraints, are different from a diffeomorphism transformation in both cases.Comment: 13 page

    Quantization of the First-Order Two-Dimensional Einstein-Hilbert Action

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    A canonical analysis of the first-order two-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action has shown it to have no physical degrees of freedom and to possess an unusual gauge symmetry with a symmetric field ξμν\xi_{\mu\nu} acting as a gauge function. Some consequences of this symmetry are explored. The action is quantized and it is shown that all loop diagrams beyond one-loop order vanish. Furthermore, explicit calculation of the one-loop two-point function shows that it too vanishes, with the contribution of the ghost loop cancelling that of the ``graviton'' loop
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